Date
Jan 01
The following Canadian Military Engineers lost their lives in Afghanistan during the Afghanistan War. You can read the Last Post entry for each soldier by clicking in their name.
- Sergeant Shane Stachnik served with 2 Combat Engineer Regiment and was killed in action on 3 September 2006 during heavy fighting during Operation MEDUSA.
- Sapper Étienne Gonthier of 5e Régiment du Génie du Combat was killed on 23 January 2008 when his light armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device during a road clearance operation.
- Sergeant Shawn Eades served with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment and was killed on 20 August 2008 along with two Sapper comrades when a roadside bomb detonated near their armoured vehicle.
- Corporal Christian Bobbitt of 5e Régiment du Génie du Combat was killed on 1 August 2009 when his resupply convoy was struck by two improvised explosive devices.
- Sapper Stephane Stock of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment was killed on 20 August 2008 along with two Sapper comrades when a roadside bomb detonated near their armoured vehicle.
- Corporal Dustin Wasden served with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment and was killed on 20 August 2008, along with two other sappers, when a roadside bomb detonated near their armoured vehicle.
- Sergeant Gregory Kruse served with 2 Combat Engineer Regiment and was killed on 27 December 2008 when an improvised explosive device was detonated while he was conducting security.
- Sapper Sean Greenfield of 2 Combat Engineer Regiment was killed in action on 31 January 2009 when his armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside improvised explosive device.
- Corporal Martin Dubé of 5 Combat Engineer Regiment was killed on 14 June 2009, while neutralizing two improvised explosive devices.
- Sergeant Martin Goudreault of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment died on 26 June 2009 after a homemade landmine exploded during a foot patrol patrol searching for weapons caches near Kandahar.
- Sapper Mathieu Allard served with 5e Régiment du Génie du Combat and was killed on 1 August 2009 when his resupply convoy was struck by two improvised explosive devices.
- Major Yannick Pepin was commanding 51eEscadron du génie de combat serving when he was killed on 6 September 2009 in a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle.
- Corporal Jean-François Drouin served with the 5e Régiment du Génie du Combat and was killed on 6 September 2009 when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb.
- Sapper Steven Marshall served with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment and was killed on 30 October 2009 by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in the Panjwai district in Kandahar Province.
- Sergeant George Miok of 41 Combat Engineer Regiment died on 30 December 2009. He was a Reconstruction Team Section Commander when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle.
- Sergeant James MacNeil of 2 Combat Engineer Regiment was killed on 21 June 2010 by an improvised explosive device while on a joint foot patrol with the Afghan National Army near the village of Nakhonay
- Sapper Brian Collier of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment was killed on 20 July 2010 on a foot patrol near Nakhonay by an improvised explosive device.
